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Apple Making a Spreadsheet?
Raleel writes "It appears that apple has trademarked the word "Numbers". Speculation is that it is a new spreadsheet. It makes sense with Keynote, Pages, and Mail." That would sort of fill in the last major hole in their lineup.
and then we will see Apple's "innovative" new product line
I loose my mind everytime I see silly errors like that.
http://www.maxineudall.com/2010/02/should-economists-be-sued-for-malpractice.html
(Couldn't find the link to the Onion story - they've pulled it)
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
Nah, they mean to say "whole." It's a coded message to the Germans, providing instructions to bomb Pearl Harbor.
Apple doesn't have a high performance virus distribution mechanism yet. It's way too easy to turn off "open safe files after download" in Safari and then all you've got to work with is social engineering.
Looks like I'm gonna owe Apple lots of money soon. I use the word "Numbers" about 100 times in my latest project report.
Think that's bad? Wait for the word processor called "Alphabet". From what I hear, they'll get Sesame Street characters to perform the same function as Clippy.
Bryan R.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, or $12.50 as seen on eBay.....
Maybe it's just their answer to calc.exe?
Deuteronomy.
It's the NextStep to the iBible.
You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia
Apple likes to keep things simple. Such as their one button mouse.
It is believed the spreadsheet program will only allow you to create and manipulate a single cell.
Steve Jobs you have done it again.
I just downloaded this new spreadsheet program and my powerbook feels much snappier now!
After all, Apple can even get their engineers to continue working on projects after they're fired
That could make for some interesting financial calculations.
Considering what most people use spreadsheets for, maybe they should call it "EasyWayToDrawBoxes".
The simple answer, however, is that Apple wanted to sell good productivity applications so they decided not to base it off of OpenOffice.
mbbac
when I was in Kindergarten in Pennsylvania, I wrote a comic book called Numbers which was about computers and robots and space aliens.
... a MILLION DOLLARS!!!! ah hah ah hah hah! ... um, look, it was in the 60s, that was a lot of money back then ... I wonder how much that would be in modern US currency ...
So obviously, I have a stronger claim.
And since at least four kids paid me a quarter for the comic book each, I did it as a small business, and thus Apple will have to pay me
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If Apple were making a spreadsheet it would be called "iNumbers"
There is truth in humor.
Well you can't trademark *a* number...
1 Dale Ernhardt Inc.
(3)Level 3 Communications
4Swingline, Inc.
5 Chanel
31 Baskin Robbins
"33" Latrobe Brewing
57 H.J. Heinz Company
501 Levi Strauss & Co.
747 Boeing
I know places where saying that can get you maced with Axe bodyspray, and beaten with birkenstocks or flipflops.
Shimmer - it's a dessert topping and a floor wax
Also, wasn't there an Apple spreadsheet program previously...
Yeah, I seem to remember this little known app called VisiCalc or something. It must have been a failure, because no one seems to even remember it here...
D-Day: War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
Bluto: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
Bluto: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough...
[thinks hard]
Bluto: the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go!
[runs out, alone; then returns]
Bluto: What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer...
Otter: Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.
Bluto: We're just the guys to do it.
D-Day: Let's do it.
Bluto: LET'S DO IT!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975/quotes
Ha! You think "spreadsheet" is a PAPER related term? True, some kids were in the habit of using spreadsheet papers. Only because they didn't know REAL spreadsheets were written on papyri. But the REALLY REAL men used stone tablets and clay blobs.
I heard they are working on a birthday reminder app - this "numbers" racket could be it!!!!
No, I think they've suffered enough.
It's tragic. Laugh.
Darn.
Does this mean I owe roylaties to Apple whenever I read the Old Testament?
The months are just too short. I can count the number of days on one hand.
Situation: You must create a graphic advertisement.
Options: You may choose LaTeX or Microsoft Publisher.
Conclusion: You must be in hell.
... and then they built the supercollider.